A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)
Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 153
h thecolour, not with the metal, and is: Barry ofeight, gules and argent (it is sometimes, drawnas Gules, four bars argent). The bars are saidto represent the four Hungarian rivers—theDanube, Save, Drave, and Theiss ;—just as thetriple mount symbolises the three chief peaks ofthe Carpathians; but… … Fig. 14.—From Nyaby, A Hcraldika. as an isolated mount, and the cross riseswithout the intervention of the crown, whichwas a later addition. {See VrEe, Genealogiedes Comtes de Flandre, plates cv., cvi. ; and com-pare the seals of the Emperor FERDINAND,plates cxxxiii., cxli.) and our figs. 13, 14,…
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